Strategies to promote speech and language in the pre-verbal or minimally verbal child with Apraxia
0901, 2015

Strategies to promote speech and language in the pre-verbal or minimally verbal child with Apraxia

The great thing about speech and language, is that it a task that can be worked on in any activity.  Familiar routines in the home provide the perfect platform for encouraging speech and language, because this “routinized language” is predictable and context based. A fellow SLP and mommy of apraxia, Kim from Landonjourney.blogspot.com and I teamed up for Part I in my series of parent strategies to promote speech at

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Feed the Snowman Articulation Game for high repetitions
0501, 2015

Feed the Snowman Articulation Game for high repetitions

I decided since my Spooky SpiderWeb game was so popular, I’d make another one for my kids with a winter snow theme.  I go back to work tomorrow and I’m excited to play this with the kids. You start with printing out the snowman boards. Glue onto a manila envelope or cereal box and cut out the mouth.     Then cut out the game cards and snow balls.  Cutting

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0812, 2014

Speech with simple magnet clips

      If your child has a speech delay, your SLP will most likely tell you that you need to create opportunities so your child HAS to communicate to you what he/she wants. I found these cheap magnet clips for the fridge at the dollar store!  You can take pictures of items in your fridge, and then clip them to the outside.  Depending on your child’s level, you can

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Costume Character Prosody Game
2710, 2014

Costume Character Prosody Game

While working with one of my kiddos with CAS this past week, I improvised a fun way to incorporate prosody into our lesson.  Since it’s around Halloween, we said his target words in different voices like our ghost voice, monster voice, or vampire voice!   I decided to make a game that would work really anytime of year to work on prosody.  Say it like a Costume Character has 2

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Initial ‘T’ tic-tac-toe
1608, 2014

Initial ‘T’ tic-tac-toe

One thing I’ve found, is that as an SLP, finding materials for apraxia can be challenging.  This is mostly due in part to the fact that syllable shape and complexity matter more for apraxia than they do for other speech sound disorders. For example, if you were working on the ‘T’ sound and opened a typical articulation workbook, it wouldn’t be uncommon to see a variety of single syllable and

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Minimal pair sort
2907, 2014

Minimal pair sort

I have a little guy in therapy right now who has a difficult time with /st/ blends.  He consistently drops the /s/ in this blend only.  To bring awareness to what he saying, SLP’s many times employ what is referred to as “minimal pair” therapy. Minimal pairs are two words that are similar except for one sound.  Many times, minimal pairs rhyme if the only sound changed occurs at the

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